Toro
Diamond Member
Did somebody say Brett Favre?
Not even top ten during his own era.
Are you kidding? I wouldn't put him as the very best but he'd be in the top 5 or 6 of his generation. He was a SB winner and 3-time MVP. He holds all sorts of records. He has something like only two losing seasons as a starting QB over 18, which is incredible. These are the best QBs of this era, in no particular order
Brady
Manning
Elway
Montana
Favre
Marino
Who would you put above Favre?
I'd take any of these guys in their prime before I'd want Favre on my team:
...
Jim Kelly
Drew Brees
Aaron Rodgers
Jim McMahon
Troy Aikman
Steve Young
Boomer Esiason
Seriously, I think Favre is the most overrated professional athlete of all time.
Why? I don't think he's the greatest ever but I don't know many who think that either.
It's too early to say on Brees and Rodgers. Esiason and McMahon aren't even in the conversation. I can see the arguments for Kelly, Aikman and Young, but at his height, Favre played at a higher level than all of them. Aikman was a winner but never won the MVP. Kelly never won a SB nor an MVP. And unlike those three, there were times when Favre was all the Packers had and he carried them on his shoulders.